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pitting
noun as in mining
Strongest match
Strong matches
- boring
- burrowing
- digging
- hollowing
- prospecting
- quarrying
- scooping
- tapping
- tunneling
- unearthing
Example Sentences
NAIROBI, Kenya—A giant hydrogen-generation project in Africa is pitting German clean-energy executives against descendants of victims of Germany’s forgotten colonial genocide.
“Havana” was his seventh and final big-screen collaboration with Pollack — a big-ticket “Casablana”-style romance that opened during a crowded holiday season, pitting it against “Hamlet” and “Godfather III,” among others.
The closures have become a sore spot for Newsom and for state Democrats, pitting their longtime clean-energy goals against concerns about the rising cost of living — a major political liability.
The New York Times illustrated the fallout of Dobbs in a Tuesday newsletter describing the “wildly divergent” state-level abortion laws pitting states against each other.
Her first order of business, however, is pitting the scowling Ritter and bland, industrious Wittmers, who had managed a bearable distance so far, against each other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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